List of J. P. Donleavy Quotes

The Best Book Of The Year, Grobel's Writing Is Quite Marvelous. The Hustons Reads Vividly, Just Like One Of John Huston's Great Films.

At The Age Of 18 I Don't Think That I Thought Very Differently Than I Did At The Age Of 25. I Think We Instinctively Have The Knowledge And Adapt The Knowledge We Need.

See All The Women Seated, Youth In Their Face Lifts, Old Age In Their Hands.

You Know, There Must Be Happiness Somewhere, When A Lawyer Dies.

To Marry The Irish Is To Look For Poverty.

If You're Going To Love Somebody, Love Somebody Who Needs It.

And No. I Must Not Go On Thinking. For The Pain Will Never Go Away. You Just Go On And Live. In The Dust Of Desertion. Still Falling Where Last I Loved.

Revenge Is What I Want. Nothing But Pure Unadulterated Revenge. But My Mother Brought Me Up To Be A Lady.

Dear Mr Skully, I Have Caught My Neck In A Mangle And Will Be Indisposed For Eternity. Yours In Death S.d.

Sometimes You Write And You Find Yourself Almost Wondering How It Will Turn Out. I Don't Think Every Writer Sort Of Almost Admits That At Some Stage His Books Can Take On Their Own Kind Of Life It Selves And Simply Lead Away Into Directions That They're Not Kind Of Prepared For.

The Purpose Of Writing Is To Make Your Mother And Father Drop Dead With Shame.

I'm All For Christianity, But Insolence Must Be Put Down.